The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said in their petition during a protest march to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja that there was ample evidence that the commission directly aided rigging of the February 25 presidential election, which produced the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as president-elect. The PDP accused INEC of deceiving Nigerians by deliberately deactivating the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) during the election. The opposition party condemned what it called “hasty” declaration of the presidential election results, saying it is a violation of the Electoral Act. It maintained that